Category: american stock market

CCP Free to Target US Investors Under Biden Admin

The Biden team is celebrating a new agreement with China to ensure Chinese Communist Party (CCP) companies on American stock exchanges abide by U.S. regulations. But don’t be fooled—CCP firms are beholden to Beijing, not shareholders. The big winners are U.S. financial giants, Biden donors, and the CCP. Big losers are individual U.S. investors more…


CCP Free to Target US Investors Under Biden

The Biden team is celebrating a new agreement with China to ensure Chinese Communist Party (CCP) companies on American stock exchanges abide by U.S. regulations. But don’t be fooled—CCP firms are beholden to Beijing, not shareholders. The big winners are U.S. financial giants, Biden donors, and the CCP. Big losers are individual U.S. investors more…


Stocks Heading to New Lows as Inflation ‘Ain’t Over’: Bank of America

Despite falling for much of the year, the U.S. stock market might decline even further rather than recover due to elevated inflation rates, according to a note by a Bank of America (BofA) strategist. Warning that the “inflation shock ain’t over,” strategist Michael Hartnett highlighted that past bear markets show the average peak-to-trough declines of…


The Failure of Market Timing and the Value of Risk Management

Commentary  Many advisors promote passive investment strategies by pointing to studies showing investors fail at “market timing.” Such was a point made recently by Ralph Wakerly. To wit: “So-called experts are telling us about the coming uber-bear or why the bull market will continue. Yet the data show that predicting the market’s direction to time buys…


Don’t Be Bearish. The Inevitable End of Bad Advice

Commentary  “Don’t be bearish.” That was the message delivered by a “Wall Street Journal” article in August 2021, discussing the “new generation” of “financial media stars.” To wit: “As the U.S. retreated amid the pandemic to its couches, millions of would-be stock pickers—some flush with stimulus cash—fired up social-media and messaging apps and dove headlong into the…


How Long Can Powell’s Scrooge Act Last?

Commentary As 2021 was entering its final few weeks, the U.S. stock market had begun pulling back anew. But there has been little sign as of this writing of the previous “buy the dip” inclination. Indeed, that seems to have turned now into “sell the rip” whenever any bounce has materialized. Though new media-fanned fears…